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Nature Medicine 8, 909 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0902-909

Lifestyle drug market booming

Tim Atkinson1

  1. London

Lifestyle drugs—medicines that treat conditions associated with lifestyle such as weight-loss tablets, anti-smoking agents, impotence therapies and hair restorers—are now a major research and development area for the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, companies have invested over $20 billion in research into such drugs since the 1990s.

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